Show TERRORISM Mount Pleasant in a Bad Way MT PLEASANT BAKPKTE Co January 29th 1881 Editors Herald The burg of Mt Pleasant is again the theatre of a thorough resistance to law and order It seems the police po-lice arrested a drunken man and under un-der the ordinance they required him on oath to tell where be got his bellie I erency from This ho declined and agreeable to said ordinance he vas fined 5 for contempt and one days imprisonment Failing to answer and purge himself of contempt tbe justice assigned him rooms in the city hotel By same means the man got away and with a few others he found refuge in Levi F Pritcbetts store The police followed found the door of the store fastened Pritch ett and the prisoner inside with some five persona ready forlresistance even to blood One of the party had been out warning persons not to pass on be footpath in front of this store Presently shots began to pour out from the inside through the window and lodging in the cottonwood tree The police seeing the armed resistance resist-ance beat a retreat and left the prisoner with Pritchett and his force inside The city although energetic in the suppression of the stupendous evil of gambling and the further evil of selling liquor unlicensed by Pritch et called to their aid the arm of the territorial law On Friday January 28th 1881 Pritohett was complained of and arrested He plead not guilty and asked four days to get some eminent emi-nent counsel from your city Bail was fixed at 500 On Thursday evening he applied fo United States Commissioner Beau mann to file his affidavit that the people > were goinc to bombard his place and whereas the bombard mont was all on his and companions side the filing dodge failed He I comes to your city for help cure and perhaps by oath and affidavit ask other help because he and hie house are endangered Last night a mass meeting was called to organize a committee of safety to offer personal and pecuniary aid to the city authorities to rid the town of the desperadoes Preamble and resolutions of a strong and digni fled nature were endorsed alike by all classes of the city The postmaster testified of the fear oC > people to visit the postoffice and of deficit in postal revenue consequent upon the proximity of Pritchetta store and people go one street around to avoid tbe house Rumor has it hat the morning succeeding the firing fir-ing arms were carried therein Women of delicate health and condition con-dition are trembling between liCe and death aa a result of threats because their husbands are in the police force and were conspicuous in the Bran anHambrick affair Men in peril or extremely nervous deep on their arms and one man dreaming he heard a noise and him the victim drew his pistol disoharged the same and took off the end of his finger Consternation is a modest term Great unanimity prevailed lot the meeting composed as it was of the mixed population of this civilized berg > on theBanpitcb Next Wednesday February 2JS1 iB the time for Pritchetts appearance to defend his plea of not guilty Mr Jacob Johnson assists the prose cution as be has done in many instances in-stances at a sacrifice of dollars temptingly ofieied He labors for pence and good order It is on dit that Commissioner eaumann has sold out and retires to Omaha or Minnesota Certain it is that the civic authori ties have been trying to stop the growth this dreadful state of society but it is uphill work It wa perhaps per-haps delayed too long but they are encouraged by the vote of confidence and public endorsement given at the mass meeting I any pronuncia 7fl57110 can be got np in tbe sheet I or from the cabinet in your city let me say receive it with largo grains of allowance and be ateured that the alowance civic and county powers backed by the people of all shades of politics and religion will be brought to bear to wipe out this reproach to Mt leaaauts fame MORE ANON |